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Pencil Sharpener.

No. 229,323.- Patented June 29,1880.

N,FETERS, FNOTO-LWMOGRAPNERl WASHINGTON D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. LIVINGSTON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO D. B.

HOWELL & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PENClL-SHARPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,323, dated June 29, 1880.

Application filed May 19, 1880. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. LIVINGS- TON, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pencil-Sharpeners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a pencil-sharpener of handsome appearance and one which may be conveniently used.

My invention consists in the combination, with a tapering or conical pencil-sharpener made from a single piece of sheet metal, of a securing device through which the meeting edges are passed, the said edges being then bent outwardly, forming an angular trough, the sides of which are serrated, so as to form abrasive surfaces for pointing a pencil.

It also consists in a novel arrangement of one or more pencil-sharpeners, a file, and a brush over a pan or tray, whereby an ornamental and useful device is produced.

In the accompanying drawin gs, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a pencil-sharpener embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a partial section thereof, taken at right angles to Fig. l on dotted line as :0. Fig. 8 is a side view of a modified form of my invention. Fig. 4. is an end view thereof.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the sharpeners, which are tapering or conical, so as to give the proper shape to a pencil-point, and of which two are here represented. These sharpeners are preferably formed of a single piece of sheet-steel, and have their meeting portions a bent outward at an angle to the body of the sharpener into face-to-face contact, and held or clamped in a securing device, B, which surrounds them, and is here represented as consisting of a cross-piece mounted on a pillar-support, G.

In these sharpeners are cut slots 71, extend ing spirally along the body, and having one edge depressed, forming spiral cutting-edges or knives.

The sharpeners may be held in the securing device B by set-screws g; but I prefer to make their meeting-edges a sufficiently long to permit of their being bent outwardly, as clearly represented in Fig. 2, one of the sharpeners shown in said figure'being of such construction. The upper surfaces of these edges may be serrated, so as to form abrasive or file-like surfaces, upon which the pencil may be pointed.

F designates a device for pointing pencils, consisting of a piece of metal mounted on the cross-piece B, and having a grooved upper surface,tl1e sides of which are serrated to form abrasive surfaces.

D designates a brush mounted upon top of the cross-piece B, by which a pencil may be cleaned after sharpening and pointing.

E designates a tray or pan mounted on feet 0, in which the shavings and dust made in sharpening a pencil are caught and held.

As the pillar-support is situated at or near the center of the pan or tray, the sharpener, file, and brush are supported near the center,

pan or tray. v

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have represented a modified form of my sharpener adapted .to be carried in the pocket.

The securing device B, through which the edges of the sharpener are passed, and in which they are secured, is provided at its end with an eye, (I, by which it may be suspended from a nail or hook, in order to use it more conveniently. It will be seen that by my invention I produce a pencil-sharpener which may be very cheaply manufactured, and one which may be very conveniently used, and presents a handsome appearance.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a tapering or conical pencil-sharpener made from a single piece of sheet metal, of a securing device through which the meetin edges are passed and then the sides of which are serrated, so as to form abrasive surfaces, substantially as specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a device for sharpening pencils, comprising a pan or tray, a sharpener or sharpeners made of a tapering or conical piece of metal provided with spiral slots, the cuttingedges of which and all dirt made by them is caught by thebent outwardly, forming an angular trough,

are depressed to form knives and erected upon 10o supports extending from the bottom of the be cleaned, so as not to soil the fingers, subpan or tray, so that the shavings out thereby stantially as specified.

fall into the pan or tray a file, also borne upon a support erected from the bottom of the pan FRANCIS LIVINGSTON 5 or tray, so that the material removed thereby Witnesses:

Will be caught by said pan or tray, and a brush CHANDLER HALL,

whereby a pencil after being sharpened may T. J. KEANE. 

